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Chevron Technology Quiets the Skies 2 Min Read Wind Over Its Wing: NASA’s X-66 Model
Boeing CST-100 Crewed Flight Test (CFT): Today, the CFT crew assisted the ISS crew by completing the ongoing Plant Water Management 6 (PWM-6) activities. Payloads: Plant Ultraviolet-B (Plant UV-B): A laptop was connected and setup in preparation for future Plant UV-B operations. More information on this experiment can be found here. Plant Water Management 6 …
The tests will model roots that imitate various absorption rates.
Engineering and spaceflight specialists from NASA and Boeing continue data analysis ahead of a decision this week on the path forward for the Starliner spacecraft’s return from the International Space Station. NASA’s decision on whether to return Starliner to Earth with astronauts aboard is expected no earlier than Saturday, Aug. 24 at the conclusion of …
Engineering teams have been working to evaluate a new model that represents the thruster
Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner spent a full day after the holiday weekend on investigations that will help demystify the effects of space on the human body, as well as some routine maintenance tasks to ensure the health of the International Space Station — now …
Pilot-T piloting spacecraft and robots study, which uses a mathematical assessment model
NASA and Boeing are currently evaluating an updated approach to the agency’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project that would focus on demonstrating thin-wing technology with broad applications for multiple aircraft configurations.
Public Affairs Speciailst Apr 24, 2025 Article A Boeing-built X-66 full-span model
Images from NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) will be on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. beginning Feb. 26.
The exhibition includes a display of spare cameras and a large 3-D model of a young
A Principles of Flight educator workshop was held at the NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center’s Office of Education’s Resource Center located at the AERO
Article Educators attending the “NASA is With You When You Fly” workshop series, model
On the 12th day of the Artemis I mission, team members conducted another planned test of the star trackers aboard Orion as it continued along a distant retrograde orbit of the Moon, and began another reaction control thruster flight test. Engineers hope to characterize the alignment between the star trackers and the Orion inertial measurements …
designed to exercise the reaction control system jets in a different configuration to model
Seedling Growth-3 is the third in a series of joint NASA-European Space Agency (ESA) science missions to study light- and gravity-signaling in plants.
During the Seedling Growth-3 experiment, eight genetic strains of the model organism
April 2019 issue of Ames‘ newsletter, the Astrogram
Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, has developed a mathematical model
